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A bird is a bird is a bird
Sometimes even we forget that writing systems are built of the same lines and curves, only in different configurations. We need something like this toy block set to come along and remind us of that fact.
Someone needs to do a multi-alphabetic version — Hindi, Russian, Chinese, Latin, Greek, Thai, Arabic, etc. Or maybe that would just be called "string." (SUZANNE)
July 9, 2007
